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Torgo · Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 3:37 pm Post subject: "The Mist"

This is the one from 2007, an adaptation of the Stephen King novella by the same guy who directed "Shawshank Redemption."

This, however, is a totally different kind of movie. Old-school, steadily intensifying horror with a twist ending that reminded me of "Night of the Living Dead." Anyone seen it?

Thoughts on the much-ballyhooed, gratuitously nihilistic ending?

(If you haven't seen it and want to, I strongly recommend you not look up the spoiler.)
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Coppy · Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 2600 Location: Chambersburg

Torgo, I saw this a few weeks. As for the ending, all I can say is "holy crap."

I don't want to give anything away on the ending, but the pure shock of is what made that movie from just a monster film to something considerably more thought-provoking... if not depressing.

Gratuitously nihilistic is almost putting it lightly. It was one of those few movies I actually sat there with my mouth open as the credits rolled. I think the only other film that did that to me was David Lynch's Mulholland Drive.